[postgis-devel] [PostGIS] #952: Document new raster analytic and processing functions in official docs

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#952: Document new raster analytic and processing functions in official docs
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 Reporter:  robe           |       Owner:  robe         
     Type:  enhancement    |      Status:  new          
 Priority:  medium         |   Milestone:  PostGIS 2.0.0
Component:  documentation  |     Version:  trunk        
 Keywords:                 |  
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Comment(by robe):

 so far have done ST_Count, ST_Quantile, ST_Reclass, ST_Histogram,
 ST_SummaryStats, ST_ValueCount, ST_AsPNG, ST_AsTIFF, ST_AsGDALRaster. as
 of r7333.  Also the helper types and I moved all the types to raster
 section and put in the histogram, summarystats, reclassarg (since it was
 too hard to have the PostgreSQL comment generator look for them in the
 PostGIS type section)
 http://www.postgis.org/documentation/manual-
 svn/RT_reference.html#Raster_Types

 My main fear is with histogram that its common enough of a name that we
 may run into collisions later -- e.g. should PostGIS geometry/geography
 implement such a thing or some other PostgreSQL package.  Anyrate won't
 worry about it for now.

 Still have all the ST_Approx and remaining output functions to go
 ST_AsJPEG etc.

 I haven't really stress tested too much  -- the output functions I did
 test a bit on real world rasters but not super stress tested. I was mostly
 focusing on correctness.  Next round after I have them documented I'll
 test with real world rasters.  Though my general feeling with the pseudo
 testing I have done is that the performance is decent (well better than I
 would have expected for the first go round anyway).

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